Investigators at Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals and the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center have identified a new and promising drug to treat AD.
The drug—and their approach by identifying a new target in the brain—showed promising results in mouse models of AD. Their findings were reported in a study published May 21 in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
“Our findings suggest an effective new way to safely prevent neurodegeneration and cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease by directly protecting the blood-brain barrier (BBB),” said the study’s co-lead researcher Andrew Pieper, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, the Case Western Reserve University Rebecca E. Barchas MD DLFAPA University Professor of Translational Psychiatry and the Morley-Mather Chair of Neuropsychiatry at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center.
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